Wednesday, March 7, 2007

SPE: Call for testers!

I've been working a lot on fixing SPE and upgrading it with the latest plugins. The winpdb debugger no longer fails and wxGlade crashes are history. Is that not great? Are you eager to try it out yourself? Please do! Get it from subversion and test it for any critical bug, so I can iron it out. I have been patching a lot for Ubuntu users, who will be very pleased with this release, and I'd like to thank Jurjen a lot for his work on Mac issues. This is a definitely a release everyone should upgrade to, wether you use windows, mac or linux!

Here is an overview what has been done:

The focus in this release is bugfixing, plugin upgrades and compatibility with wxPython 2.8, but it also still works on wxPython 2.6

Any chance of a way to donate without having to create a paypal account? Others have managed to set that up even with paypal as a middleman.As I don't have an account and really believe I shouldn't need one. I for one, hold off donating until then.

I've uploaded a fix to svn. I just discovered that overriding the normal behaviour of a tree in gtk is not an option. From now on you can only use the arrows to expand a tree item in the explorer. Can you try again now to crash SPE?

Opened file and checked the above bug was fixed. Then began to check pychecker. I made a deliberate error in the code (def to de f) and started pychecker. Nothing picked up, but that's alright. Wrote some notes in notes tab. Checked to see if they appeared on bottom notes tab. They didn't (don't know if they are supposed to?). But then I went to close the file using menu File->Close and SPE crashed with seg fault as follows. Looks like pychecker maybe?

Looks good, one thing I immediately noticed is that when no files are open, clicking on a menu and browsing it (mouseOvering the different options) will cause lots of errors to appear in the shell tab at the bottom half of the screen.

Suggestion: the donate button in the help menu could make the 'donate' tab be selected instead of opening the same thing in a web page.

SPE latest SVN, Ubunt EdgyI can run SPE fine with Python 2.4.When I 'sudo update-alternatives --config python' to switch to 2.5 and try running SPE, I get "Error: SPE requires wxPython, which doesn't seem to be installed. Get it from http://www.wxpython.org!"I checked the first bit of code in SPE.py and tried 'import wxversion' from the Python 2.5 shell: "ImportError: No module named wxversion". It is clearly installed (according to both apt and Python 2.4)... I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. It seems as though Python 2.5 doesn't have access to installed packages.

Hi,first of all I have to say that SPE is the greatest IDE I've ever seen, thanks for all the work!I have one problem with version 0.8.4.b, running on Windows XP.If I try to run a file that is located on a path with spaces, it fails:"C:\Python25\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\Documents': [Errno 2] No such file or directory"Probably the file argument is passed to python without quotes.